Unaccountable Numbers

Authors

  • Fabio Acerbi CNRS

Abstract

The corrupt sentence in which Diophantus describes the unknown (Arithm. 1.6) can be cured with a slight emendation that recognizes the wide and non-technical uses of ἄλογος.

Author Biography

Fabio Acerbi, CNRS

UMR8560 ‘Centre Alexandre Koyré’, Paris

Chargé de Recherche de 1ère Classe

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Published

2015-08-16

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